Lina Abdelfattah – IFPRI
This is a summary of a regional program policy note published by IFPRI titled “Yemen: Economy-wide impact of conflict and alternative scenarios for recovery”. [...]
What’s the future of food subsidies in Egypt?
Hoda El-Enbaby and Clemens Breisinger - IFPRI
Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta - World Bank
In Egypt’s current context of wide-ranging economic reforms, there is growing momentum to improve the longstanding Tamween food subsidy system. Tamween’s ration cards benefit around 70 million people, while the bread subsidy benefits around 83 million people, and together they make up about 6 percent of the government’s budget. During a workshop organized by the World Bank under the auspices of the Ministry of Supply and Internal Trade (MoSIT), on May 20th, 2019, Marina Wes (World Bank Country Director for Egypt, Yemen and Djibouti) emphasized the potential expected gains of reforming the subsidy program, and the importance of learning from other countries while contextualizing to Egypt-specific conditions.
Policy Brief: Responding to conflict: Does “Cash Plus” work for preventing malnutrition? New evidence from an impact evaluation
Sikandra Kurdi, Clemens Breisinger, Hosam Ibrahim, Yashodham Ghorpade, Afrah Al-Ahmadi
An impact evaluation of Yemen’s Cash for Nutrition program provides new evidence of the benefits of “cash plus” transfer programs to meet nutritional needs in conflict situations.
Publication: Beyond the business case for agricultural value chain development: An economywide approach applied to Egypt
Clemens Breisinger, Mariam Raouf, James Thurlow, Manfred Wiebelt
This paper goes beyond the “business” case for agricultural value chain development and presents an economy-wide framework to make the “development” case. We show that there are several key transmission channels that determine the economy-wide impacts of promoting various value chains, including forward and backward economic linkages, price responses, and net employment effects.
Publication: Energy subsidy reform for growth and equity in Egypt: The approach matters
Clemens Breisinger, Askar Mukashov, Mariam Raouf, and Manfred Wiebelt
Phasing out energy subsidies is high on the agenda of policymakers in several Middle Eastern and North African countries. The impact of such reform can vary widely depending on the country and policy. This paper contributes to the existing literature by examining the phasing out of energy subsidies in Egypt under alternative economic scenarios.
